centrally gave them a week's notice by posting it on twitter so this is the way the u.s. is running its war these days and this is from his tweets and this is something he said he would never ever do one of his first press conferences he said i will never tell you what i'm going to do and then he telegraphs it but gareth he did that on purpose because he knows he's painted himself into a corner and his advisors are making sure that he doesn't have any maneuver room so that's why you throw these these missiles at them when i've heard a dozen different versions about how many of them made their target how many were shot down how many them didn't work ok i don't know ok but the american version doesn't stand up to much scrutiny from what i can tell go ahead gareth it was just political theater it wasn't actually a military strike it was political theater garrett. i couldn't i couldn't agree more on that point and you know if you actually read the the the

morning briefing that was given at the pentagon after the night that the strikes took place it was an amazing performance in the sense that you know the people doing the briefing absolutely would not answer a question that's you know that had to do with for example you know with you know did did you actually do any air sampling to find out if you know when you hit this supposedly a place where they were making chemical weapons there was any pot problem of affecting the air of the people surrounding it and it's clear that they hadn't done it and that they couldn't basically say what the consequences were of the target they hit and i think that what that means is that they really didn't have any information of course was always the case where the right producer and the let me jump in here let me let me jump in here we've got to go to a hard break and after out of hard break we'll continue our discussion on syria

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a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. welcome back across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the situation in syria. ok let me go back to mohammed in. nikki haley she says she's not confused i think she's confused all of the time she made it very clear that the u.s. presence in syria is aimed at iran she was very clear about that of course people in the white house didn't like her saying it but she said she's not confused ok. is this really what it's really all about is that. because of the political situation the status quo in syria were other actors are

creating political facts and the u.s. is just occupying is are they really turning in a different direction is this really what it's all about is focusing in on iran. although you think that nikki haley is the only or it's official in the nation who is going to fuel all of those and know how to put off the intentions of trauma and i think now with the situation that is a combination of perform active politics but i'm prism if we can see it that way and also a piecemeal tactics when they have a trump runs into problems he has to figure out this through asterix of politics in front of governments yet the difference between what he is said in front of government and what the. has done or is accused of in the field in particular in syria is a huge and i think now we have been talking about the rise of. them i think that we

have to pay attention to something new is the way nene confidence in washington by. and now it becomes like this great power that has lost its focus and also probably has put so much on his plate that he can handle now we have the future is collision next month with iran and the nuclear there we have the upcoming summit with the north korean leader there so so much to deal with and i think now has probably a lot of the expectations of the public in this region of the world by embrace in so many adventurous and then he can not deliver much what are you remain concerned about is if trump and the kremlin loses their grip on both the iranians on the one hand and the israelis on the other does when it's

going to be a messy joke and i don't think the trump will be able to figure out what to do next you know danny that's brought up a really good point because there's so many festering issues particularly in the middle east but and on a broader broader scale with north korea the u.s. doesn't have a grasp on the situation i mean one of the things i have noticed with this administration is that it's there's so many war hawks so many military people and then you have pompei all coming in not exactly a man of great tack ok in diplomacy and what we really need now and i mean this for all players because my primary issue issue is peace and having peace settlements ok you can need a lot of finast you're going to need a lot of patience and the date this is ministration doesn't exhibit any of the above go ahead danny. well i would just like to bring you back to the moment where

. the initial disagreement between the russians and truong started and trump issued the tweet and the response of the russian foreign ministry was we don't we don't participate into it to diplomacy now you can bring this back here because because you the main problem is the policy it's not just to people you need finesse you need you need that clause of managing to find agreements obama managed to do it with the iranians for sure but the americans don't have a policy that's the problem you've got trump who's just discussing leaving syria and then within the next couple of days he sets another red line and then he begins . to make threats of attacking syria after an alleged chemical weapons attack which wasn't verified internationally and he chose to strike syria on the same day that the u.n. chemical weapons inspectors arrived to investigate the scene and so from that perspective you've got a leader who is acting in a very confusing way who's misleading himself it ministration and his allies and

who essentially doesn't know what to do in syria longer than this week so what what syria needs at the moment is an international agreement to be aged but is trump the person to deliver that agreement that consensus absolutely not and what followed site in moscow is position now i would be very wary of having to negotiate or deal with trump on any matter not just syria for that matter because because because in trump you're dealing with an individual who is someone predictable who has such a lack of understanding of the situation that all you have to do is bring up is tweets from two thousand and thirteen ridiculing obama who didn't in syria to understand that the gods has completely gone against every one of his statements i mean one of the commentators said you know there's a trump tweet for every occasion so if we look at the situation now i wish i've got i wish that weren't funny but it is ok i should laugh because it's such a secure. agents of great gravity here you know let me go to gareth here we can see

you know both muhammad and danny bring up a really good point there i mean next month i guess we're all going in we're all in tis a payday and that it is going to withdraw from the iran deal ok in the at the same time they say he wants to make a deal with the north koreans i mean and then the u.s. is stubborn and it will end actually it works as a negative force in syria that doesn't allow a peace process to move forward any kind peace could possibly break out in syria well ash carter comes around and bombs ok or or just women a major city is of liberated from terrorist and supported by foreigners oh we have a chemical weapons attack here so i mean i own every single scale there's no reason to be optimistic here and one does influence the other these situations are interconnected go ahead gary well of course they are interconnected in the sense that the north koreans are constantly looking at what the united states is doing elsewhere in the world to assess you know how to how to deal with them in terms of

trying to negotiate a settlement which they've been trying to do for three generations of the kim family and so that that is entirely that's centrally important to their to their calculations. and i think that it's very important to understand that that kim kim jong un does indeed intend to bring about a comprehensive solution with trump if it's at all possible and i think that this has happened primarily i would argue because of president moon of south korea's patient diplomacy with the north and with trump and clearly trump moon has been very clever in appealing to trump's sense of vanity you know making it possible for trump to say i am the one who has made this possible and it couldn't have happened with the. me as long as the moon is able to carry on that diplomacy with trump i do

have some hope for these talks really succeeding but of course we have john bolton whispering in trouble you're going to convince him to do something different that is the fly in the ointment to say the least but but definitely i think that trump is now moving in the direction that is hopeful on peace with north korea and that is quite an astonishing turn of events even more astonishing i must say than nixon going to china yeah let me quote about back to doha mohamed one of the things i think is very interesting i mean we had the north korean leader visit beijing recently we had pompei oh actually state department designit had a meeting with the leadership of north korea i get this strong feeling and i don't see western analysts looking at it this way the trip to china wasn't begging it was like i've got an idea and you back it and i think it's going to be and this is

going to be the true test of leadership is that denuclearization yes america must withdraw its military completely from the peninsula that is actually a good idea with chinese and russian guarantees ok the american deep state the blob will never ever under any circumstances buy that deal though it would be a good deal go ahead mom. a month ago i was very optimistic about the next summit to between the north and kim jong un or non they thought they would achieve a breakthrough but having reflected on trump conflict analysts from my perspective i am kind of confused because when i consider him a pragmatist or a realist he is not good at waging war and this is the second. and said may go back and use the chemical weapon once again so there is no

programmatic ism in the way trump handled his decision of go into war at the same time when i considered him a deal maker i don't see haim innovative leader who can engage in deal making and so he is everything but being a pragmatist so now my fear is that we will witness. kind of media event be votes around the off ramp on the one hand and kim on the other and because of this inflated politics we may not see or we may not witness what we are looking for a little major or a little significance in advance in the agenda so i think the now the ball will go back to the court of the chinese i think if there is any balance in power between north korea and the united states is what the region can do or their ways if it is

left to trump and i don't see any i would regard as kind of going to finish with danny and i'm going to give you a situation danny you know with the with the situation with iran deal with north korea that this is how it's going to be trump comes out and says we want a deal and sitting right next to me is john bolton and he says to the iranians the north koreans all you have to do is surrender and everything will be fine ok that's how it's that's how it's going to play out again the second for danny finish up. it's more likely that it will that way but in essence what the fundamental flaw in trump's syria action was which will lead to huge problems now in the future while setting a precedent and saying that he was going to stick by it because now any any any with of of an idea that chemical weapons might have been used and he will be on the immense pressure internally to strike syria again and if he doesn't like syria again who knows the next time what kind of response will be from the russians from the iranians from the syrians and you've got to remember there are u.s. troops on the ground in syria who for the short parley saudi arabian troops are

going to go in now and replace them so you've got this policy which is up in the air but trying to set a very dangerous precedent now in syria ok on that point gentlemen we've run out of time many thanks to my guests in washington london and in doha and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. one march there was a healthy person on the. block to serve as another of the four c. of the european soldier dog. in the zoo montana preserve us but stuff like. building three years

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a. highway you see there every. problem like that. reagan you decide to gas is deployed in clashes on the gaza israel border in that massive air. including by the families of imprisoned palestinians a local journalist working for ourselves. she told us she's now ok we'll be going live to her later in the program for all the updates from the sea also to the small . videos purporting to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in syria an r.t. crew visits places seen in the footage and speech to eyewitnesses and the founder of the infamous blackwater security group is reportedly being contacted by gulf

officials to help create a so-called arab force in syria and replace u.s. troops after their withdrawal. or working or watching r.t. international good to have you company and i will start with breaking news this hour because tear gas has been deployed along the gaza border with israel trying to disperse protesters there israeli officials confirm that around three thousand palestinians are involved in the live pictures at the moment and that's amid an anti israel march by families of imprisoned palestinians there are reports that at least two demonstrators there have been killed the local journalist think a diary was reporting for r.t. when she herself was tear gas with police to say that she is ok and she's now back at the scene reporting for us good afternoon good to see looking better much better than you were earlier just tell us what's the situation like there at the moment.

so i'm two hundred meters away from the fence that separates between gaza strip and israel we can see the israeli snipers stationed along the borders there have a new weapon they have been firing tear gas canisters live ammunition on the protesters and demonstrators they are trying to disperse them they have been also try getting their journalists paramedics and oppressed cars since the morning and it's very dangerous here but you can see at. these three thousand palestinian demonstrators and prisoners families and a lot of palestinians are marching towards the sons. we were trapped today between at least three or four to five set your gas canisters and we completely fainted i really don't remember what was happening at that time but i managed to get my treatment from the medical points and i'm back again covering what's happening as you see those the israelis are on the other side and they're holding snipers and it's very obvious that they're trying to target the palestinian protesters near the

front and how we can see women and children. and everyone was it was suffocating from the tear gas that was intensively fire den targeted on the palestinian protesters at what's happening today yet to at least sit to sense the morning two palestinians have been killed and at least one hundred palestinians have been injured from lots of munition rubber bullets explosive bullets and and live ammunition and what's happening now is people are still coming are still marching to the fence and they believe that they will state that protesting on the until the fifteenth of may which is going to be a tuesday and it's still it's still escalating in people are still near the funds as you said earlier you were caught up in some of that to get asked do you think we can have a look at some earlier footage of exactly what happened. oh my god

it's crazy everyone is running from the tear gas canisters they're randomly shooting to death something everyone made the external us civilians wrote that down that everyone. was really good hearted right to do what you. just looking at their footage of you being taken out of an ambulance and given treatment for that tear gas just quickly describe for us how did it feel because this is a scene we've seen many times during these protests that tear gas has been used. so we were we were we were covering we were covering the protests and coming closer to the protesters and suddenly they they intensively started to fire tear gas and we were trapped by at least five tear gas canisters we started to feel our nose and

eyes burning we couldn't even take take a breath and at that time i literally fainted i didn't know what's happened what was going on and it was not only me there were pam medics and there was a journalist that was directly shot in his hand. that the israeli forces are actually intending to target the palestinian journalists and and and the paramedics what's going on is it's ridiculous how they're targeting everyone and no one is safe either it's a protester a civilian a paramedic or a journalist ok all right well thanks jim we'll leave it there for now local journalist on the garza border in the meantime just to give you some updates. massa legend who organized the rally say israeli officials and israel is also the fended the actions of its military has justified that this reports are coming in that at least two palestinians have died throughout the day this current day of protests that are taking place at the gaza border.

video footage video footage broadcast around the world claim to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in syria steamer is now being called into question a team from our sister channel r.t. arabic has visited the city of duma my colleague recently discussed what they saw there with she done. what we've seen so far from this place was and much mostly it's been a video released by the white helmets activist group you're looking at right now it's shot in a hospital and it's shows some truly heartbreaking pictures these scenes of chaos of panic confused children being hosed down with water everything pointing at a potential chemical attack but are to rob a crew managed to talk to a boy who was featured in this video of the white house and he gave his account of events in that hospital have

a listen to that had we were outside and they told all of us to go into the hospital i was immediately taken upstairs and they started pouring water on me do you remember where it happened. here with the hose or is it here it is. that the poured water on me they put me here and then took me off serious to my mother where exactly up stairs the second floor. up stairs over there that alley. saturday the doctor started filming us here they were pouring water and taking videos and then my father came and found me someone had told him we were here so he came and took me away i luckily i didn't know she was being seen i went up stairs and saw my wife and children i was very surprised and asked what had happened when my son's eyes were red i found out that

it was water but it was cold he could have got sick he was undressed when i took my son the first told me that they still needed him but i still took him away from there. the boy is clearly in shock still to have to go through something like this or to go through such terror at his age is unthinkable really we've reached out to the white helmets requesting a statement of some reaction to what's being being filmed in duma right now but we're still to hear back from them even as i understand there was other footage from the alleged senior of the attack was and yes indeed there was another video released by another activist and it is apparently from an apartment building where the actual chemical project tile the alleged chemical projectile landed this is the initial video that we're showing you right now and this is the project we our crew again managed to get inside this very building so to the left you can see our video and to the right is the original one and initially how the media reacted to

the first the released video well they saw it as rock solid evidence of a chemical attack the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and astaire's that the asshead regime has previously used in chemical attacks the assad regime has used this same yellow gas canisters the n.s.c. telling fox news they have a high degree of confidence that it was yours apparently the project was still toxic was still fuming with the something toxic and that's why they had to wear a mask to protect themselves but we've spoken to a number of experts and they've told us that i mean a gas mask is basically not enough to protect. one cell from a toxic substance if that were a nerve agent whether he's got his base covered or not it's going to go right through his skin and the only protection that he could have is if this whole body were in a chemical control suit if there were chlorine gas that would protect him from from

some small leaking of the chlorine gas for a while and it doesn't make any any any sense i could see it going through a roof and never even breaking it's a silly way and even if it did great go the dispersal of the chlorine might only kill the people in the room or what not even people outside the room had time to get out now and international chemical watchdog is carrying out its investigation into my to we know what level of what stage they're at now in the investigation well the o.p.c. inspectors the fact finding mission they are in damascus but they so far have not been able to and to do much it's not safe u.n. security mission they went to the city of do mine with the syrian army and they came under small arms fire so far it's not safe enough but this whole endeavor is as some would be rendered well almost a relevant i should say because the retaliation for the chemical for the chemical attack that's there's no confidence yet in the fact that even happened in the.